CLIPPINGS FROM "'PUNCH." In a list published recently, the number of speeches (and the words contained there in) made by the members of Parliament during the last session was given. Con spicuous amongst the list stands the name of the honorable member for Maryborough (Mr Fraser) who is distinguised by his not having spoken asingle word. While others have been takingout their "three hundreds" in "silvern speech," Mr Fraser lihas given us our "change in "golden silence." It is satisfactory to know that Mr Fraser's silence benefitted us jusi as much us all the speeches of the other legislators put together-the total being alike in both cases-?-sL. The reason why the All-England Eleven lost the match is very evident-they fiuiked. Every one of them was pigeon-livered, and showed the White feather. In fact, we are told by one who ought tb know, that' when the captain of the English Eleven went in for his second innings, every one-that knew him saw that he was LILTY-WHITE. Why is a gardene...

ENGLISH EXTRACTS. A Mr. Alderson, lately returned from Australia, where he was for twelve years, has put in a claim to a large property at YWarrington, which had been disposed of under the supposition that he was.dead. Lord Falmouth proposes that foreign horses shall not be allowed to run on Eng lish courses, unless English horses are per mitted to contest.all races in the country to which the horses belong. Riots took place in several towns on Guy Fawkes Day. At Winchester the city was in the hands of the mob for several' hours. At Reigate and Maidstone there were serious collisions with the police. Mr Cobbett made an application at the Westminster Police Court for summonses for conspiracy against Messrs Gladstone, Lowe, and Stansfield, in connexion with the trial of the Claimant. The request was re fused, and he was told he could apply for a mandamus if he thought proper. Chas. Biggs, who was arrested in Mel bourne on a warrant charging him with em bezzlement whilst in the employ ...

CRANBOURNE SHIRE COUNCIL. Saturday, January 6. present:-The President (James Lecky, Sand 'd Councillors Poole, Crichton, Greaves,1Facey, Patterson; Lecky,.jun., Rossiter and Howard. The minutes, of previous meetirig were read and ccnfirmed, and outward corres pondence read and approved. CORRESPONDENCE. From Postmaster-General, requesting that ssession of rooms in the Shire Hall for £sost-fice purposes be given to Mr. Thomp son. Received. From F. Btthune, saying that he was ssffering great inconvenience from dust, which blew from new formation works op posite his house, suggesting that the for mation he continued further up the hill and the surplus earth covered over the present formation.-Referred to the Engineer to report. A recommendation from the Inspector of Slaughterhlouses was read, approving of the plcation of ~Mr. George Binding for a sfamghtering license. Granted. From Mr. Lyall, saying that it appeared to him that his letter, referring to his assess ment had not been prope...

a N . p SD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1877. ALTHoIwoxindisposed t;o' attach so much weight as some of our contemporaries appear to do to the words of wisdumlthat' fall from Vice regal lip's, apparently merely because of the exalted station of the, ;utterer, it is perhap. desirable, if no other ;n ansmt prove effectuail im directing .attentloi 'to grave and notoriius-aibuses, that gubernatorial eloquence should oc s~ai'onailhh'iielllif iiitters for its theme, and, taking this viewv of the subject, the colony is doub:less under some obliga'tion to: Sir George, Bnwen.for .having adverted, in a recent speech, to the flagranit anrid serious evils attacliifig ito the system of patriai d thiitstill obtaine in connection ifithbiir.CivillService: ,AsHis Excellency, most correctly: observed,; itis a. glaring satire upon our democratic institutions that whilst in conseivatise and aristocratic] England, candidates`. tofremployment in the public service have only to rely on their own merits, and may...

i-s.RIGIMOiI'D POQLICE COUIRT.. Johln Gillig?trwas dliarged w?ithi comioit ino an unlaiwful assanlt upon John Kennedy, a blacksmith', :'hllo complain ant stated that. the defendant pushed him and challenged' him to 'lilht.. Tlid ?difnhiiinant's emiployer' stated tlhat' the ilefendahti interfered with 'a boy swho, was idilý on' a bycicle; and upon being remonstrnted `:with;! followed him up' and chlllenged him to.figlit. Tihe defen dant was also clhar ed tithi assaultin ' a Chinaaaunnained lna hn;I and with resist ing. the police in the cecution of their duty. T in Jn stalted that lieo Iwas in. Church street,.on iMonday.m norning .last at. about eiglit,io!elock;; when,, the defendant wert to his ltruckantd demanded- some fruit, and upon be'ing,r cfused 'he struck the complainant in the eye; anotheri; Chiaman then went firi the police. No provocation: was given5' hiie defeid?ant said this was:a charge that lhe; knew. .nothing. whatever 'about; lie had never iheard anything of it befor...

TaoAT Anrrtartonre a HoAtssma..-.All suffer ing from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be agreeably snrprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by the use of "Brown's Bronchial Trochbe." These famous "loseage' are now alid by most respectable chemists in thisb country at Is lid. per box. People troubled with a . hacking cough," a "slight ecid," or bronchial affections, can not try them too soon, as similar troubles, if allowed to progress, result in serious Pelmonary and Asthmatic affections. See that the words "Brown's Bronchial Trochea" are on the Government Stamp around ea's box.-Manufactured by John 1. Brown &amp; Bone, Botaon United States. Depot, 493 Oxford-street, Loidon. Ansna txo MoTmauS--are you broken in your rest by a esick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at onee to a chemist and gets bottle os Mrs.-Winsl-w's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to taste, it produes n...

,BLIGHTED B A WATER-BUTT. (oostiouedfrom our lt.) "Everything seems propitious for our light. . It'e a lovely. night, and there's no moon," said Digby to himself. "In about half-anuhor-it will be time to omnience operations." ' . Being afiaid to go back' into the house, leet .he might wake the other inmates, he sat down upon a gardei seat, thinking what an uncommonly latky fellow he was; until he was rtoused from his reverid b? ir earwig crawling down his ba.k. Twelve o'clock struek from a niighbortng churche ": The time'has come," muttered Digby, as hbe mounted 'the'wall and'dropped his rope quietly into hisl neighbors garden. +That done, he let himself gently down on to the lid of the dustbin, and from thenie to the ground. ;i All's well, so far," Laid our hero ;:"but where's Amelia ' Surely, she can't be aleep." So' he picked op a few emall pebbles, and threw them one by one againet the window of her room. Afier a shots delay the French "ndow'above wa ve?y cautiorly opened; and t...

SELECT POETRY. CLASSIC GROUND. I gave th reins to Fancy, as the diy • Withdrew its golden preeence from my room - And, noble in their glory and their gloom, Had glimpses of old grandeui psased away. And there was Greece, with all her greatoe, gone S- sonding pageant on the track of time; And Athens?;tising from her sleep aoblime, Set oni her queenly brow the Parthenon. A dS iado eought again his encient height, :And Music revelled in her wonted teles,. :AndRBeauty gave once more divinest smiles To scones rejoicing in her early light . And :hen up rose proud Venice from her waves, Dipped i a golden sheen of sea and sky ..And risions of old spledoure glimmered by; And regal phantoms, called from grandest graves; tWiiththoughts of Taeeo, and the gondoliers Who filltd each moonlit vista with hie lays; The pity and the pride of olden days; Ot?ello's wrong and Belvidera's tears. Until thero came a tumult, and the cry SOf rinching peoples; maddened with their fame, . Led like one living oc...